“Any provocation or attack on Ukraine will have serious consequences,” EU foreign policy chief Joseph Borrell told Russia a few hours before his current contacts with Ukrainian officials.
“The European Union is Ukraine’s closest partner and we fully support its territorial integrity and national sovereignty,” the top European diplomat said in an interview with the Polish news agency PAP.
During his visit to Ukraine, Borrell will hold talks with Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba in Kiev and with officials in eastern Ukraine.
The visit of the head of European diplomacy is part of the international efforts to de-escalate the crisis that is brewing on the Ukrainian border.
Washington and its European allies accuse Moscow of threatening Ukraine with a new invasion of Crimea in 2014, and of waging war between pro-Russian separatists and the Ukrainian army that erupted in Donbas the same year. Some 100,000 Russian troops have recently gathered on the eastern Ukrainian border.
On the other hand, for Moscow, Russia’s security goes beyond the ban on NATO enlargement to the east, which it perceives as an existential threat, and the end of Western military activities near the Russian border.
Russia and the United States will hold talks on Ukraine in Geneva on Sunday (January 9th) and Monday (January 10th). The two sides are expected to resume talks Wednesday (January 12th) at the NATO-Russia Council, followed by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) on Thursday (January 13th).
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